Gentrified Quotes

#1. Really? Brixton? Where nobody speaks fucking English?" Okay, that wasn't quite fair, and supposedly Brixton was getting "gentrified." "Remember Guns of Brixton, the Clash?

Amy Lane

#2. Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

Bill Kraus

#3. Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

Julian Sands

#4. Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

Tea Leoni

#5. This had been a bad section of town before the Circus moved in and brought in money, which attracted other businesses. The area had been gentrified not because of some government interference, but by good old-fashioned capitalism, which was one of Jean-Claude's favorite things.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

Joel Kinnaman

#7. Mixologist at a bar in the heavily gentrified Shaw neighbourhood, I fear I haven't a skinny-jeaned leg to stand on. S.D. PLATTON Washington, DC

Anonymous

#8. I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

Zaha Hadid

#9. They took a meandering route through the neighborhood, louche and gentrified all at once.

Boris Fishman

#10. I left parts of myself everywhere,
The way absent-minded people leave
Gloves and umbrellas
Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

Charles Simic

#11. She had loved them all, her children. Loved each one the best, but for different reasons.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#12. I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'

Tig Notaro

#13. (People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.)

Tim Kreider

#14. I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

Jodie Whittaker

#15. It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

Ron Silver

#16. Exhaustion is a normal pregnancy symptom. I'm building an ecosystem in here!

Rachel Bertsche

#17. Whilst on the subject of the spread of Buddhism in the West, I want to say that I have noticed some tendency towards sectarianism amongst new practitioners. This is absolutely wrong. Religion should never become a source of conflict, a further factor of division within the human community.

Dalai Lama XIV

#18. Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Margaret Halsey

#19. Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those things that kept you tethered to your past.

Jennifer E. Smith

#20. I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn't see any.

Megan Hart